Tumescent Arrows of the Half-Light
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The Tumescent Arrows of the Half-Light were something that the Twelfth Doctor once offered to show Clara Oswald. She declined however, as she wanted to meet Robin Hood, and so the Doctor took her to Sherwood Forest instead.
He hinted they could "fracture 15 different levels of reality simultaneously" and that he took a photograph of them with a Polaroid. The Doctor further added that "those girls can hold their drink." (TV: Robot of Sherwood [+]Loading...["Robot of Sherwood (TV story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor mentioned the Tumescent Arrows of the Half-Light as a civilisation he'd seen fall. (PROSE: The Crimson Horror [+]Loading...["The Crimson Horror (novelisation)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Before their on-screen namedrop in Robot of Sherwood, the Tumescent Arrows of the Half-Light were referenced in lines in earlier Mark Gatiss scripts which weren't included in the final episodes.
- In The Idiot's Lantern [+]Loading...["The Idiot's Lantern"], the Tenth Doctor was to have mentioned "the Tumescent Arrows of the Half-light - numbers eight through fifteen" as examples of famous coronations.
- DWMSE 14 claimed that the cut line referred to "the Fragrant Arrows of the Half-Light", a reference to the phrase "fragrant arrows" found in William Butler Yeats' poem Anashuya and Vijaya.
- In Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"], the Eleventh Doctor was to have mentioned "the Arrows of the Half-Light" as one of his previous victories over the Daleks.
